Steve Harwell was a hard-rockin' bass player in the quickly rising Seattle grunge band Concrete Dreams before he goblinized. The band decided that he no longer really fit with the image they wanted for the band, and they upgraded the bass player to an elf with two functioning eyes. While his transformation into a cyclops did make Steve tougher, getting kicked out of the band to be replaced by an elf has made him less tolerant of elves. And by "less tolerant", he can't fraggin' stand those dandelion eaters. The whole experience left him angry about how his musical career went, but he wanted to remember it and use it as a weapon. So he melted his bass guitar "Betty" down into a makeshift club and developed an unhealthy emotional attachment to it. The Lake Acids had no problem looking past his appearance and personality quirks because of how imposing a tatted up cyclops looks when "negotiating" with rival gangs. Plus, his brief stint as a rock star is just cool, ya know?